Biden’s Interior Department Authorizes Oil Drilling in Alaska

A handful of essential drilling permits were recently issued for oil and gas operations in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, averting a potential shutdown that could have sent roughly 200 workers home, Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan says.

• Most oil companies operating in the NPRA-A, which is overseen by the Bureau of Land Management, had a “suite of permits they needed” for operations this season, but others faced risk from a Jan. 20 order temporarily elevating permitting decisions to top Interior Department officials, Sullivan says in an interview
  • The permits were approved “just a couple days ago,” Sullivan says; he declined ...